1. Figuring Out Life
Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for things are unique.(5)" Instead of pointing to some supernatural force as the source of the universe, the Epicurean explains the presence of our universe as the "right atoms in right season" that have "streamed together to build each thing we see.(5)" More accurately, "our world was made by nature, when atoms, meeting by chance, spontaneously, and joined in myriad useless, fruitless ways, at last found patters, which when thrown together became a...
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